Inside the Summer Comedy Boom

5/16/2013 12:32PM

Superheroes and alien invasions hog all the attention, but in recent years it has been comedies—often adult and racy—that have been the big box-office overachievers, even overseas, largely because they cost much less to produce. Rachel Dodes reports.

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